Benny Johnson: “The promise there for them and their grandpappies was that…”

“Right. So there's plenty of veterans in West Virginia. West Virginia, I think, has some of the highest percentages of veterans in the country. It does. The promise there for them and their grandpappies was that you go over and you die on a beach somewhere and we'll have peace in our time. We won't have to fight them here. Yet you, not you. Sorry, Riley, but like you, the, the politicians brought the war to us. Yeah.” (05:30–05:39)

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